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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lord Byron
Travel, Men, Waiting

I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky”.

Lord Byron
Moon, Sky, Rivers

And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Lord Byron
Life, Cups, Sparkle
"Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

Lord Byron
Spiritual, Soul And Body, Imagine

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Lord Byron
Time, Fear, Fool
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

Lord Byron
Heart, Grieving, Years
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.383, Delphi Classics

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron
Love, Funny, Epic

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Lord Byron
Loneliness, Solitude, Should
Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord Byron
Inspirational, Literature, Sincere

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Lord Byron
Mind, Liberty, Spirit
'Sonnet on Chillon' (1816)

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

Lord Byron
Mourning, Witness, Mourn

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron
Hope, Truth, Pain
Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

Lord Byron
Thinking, Littles, Impossible

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron
Death, Sleep, Men
Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

Lord Byron
Wise, Grief, Sorrow
Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Lord Byron
Happiness, Meaningful, Angel
Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Lord Byron
Sky, Mountain, Wave

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

Lord Byron
Land, Bridges, Wings
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.264, Delphi Classics

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron
Love, Thank You, Valentines Day
Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.168, Routledge

I learned to love despair.

Lord Byron
Despair
Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.979, Delphi Classics

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Lord Byron
Reading, Knowledge, Needs

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Lord Byron
Power, Years, Shade
Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

Lord Byron
Years, Two, Broken
'When we two parted' (1816)

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Lord Byron
Vanity, Bravery

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

Lord Byron
Overcoming, Hateful, Instinct